{"id":334915,"date":"2024-06-27T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334915"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T15:59:12","slug":"heat-wave-sets-off-new-round-of-climate-crisis-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=334915","title":{"rendered":"Heat Wave Sets Off New Round Of \u2018Climate Crisis\u2019 Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From ClimateRealism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u2019s Note: The mainstream media has posted dozens if not hundreds of stories touting claims that a record breaking heatwave is hammering parts of the United States, which the media links to climate change, see, for example stories from Reuters<\/a>, Forbes<\/a>, the Los Angeles Times<\/a>, and USA Today<\/a>. Climate Realism has previously debunked this latest round of record setting heat wave claims, here<\/a> and here. <\/a>This article from the editorial board of <\/em>Issues & Insights, should put the alarming climate falsehood about the present summer heatwave, among other seasonal perennial \u201cextreme weather\u201d assertions the mainstream media commonly makes, firmly to bed.  <\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
By the I&I Editorial Board<\/a><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s a summer heat wave going on, which gives journalists the opportunity to fill up their stories with climate change boilerplate. It no longer matters whether any of it is true. Just the opposite, in fact. If you point out the truth, you\u2019re accused of being a denier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, the data doesn\u2019t show an increase in the number of heat waves, or hurricanes, or tornadoes, or wildfires. Yet every time one or the other strikes, the press robotically connects that event to \u201cclimate change.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And so, true to form, every story about the current heat wave says that climate change is to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axios, which is a bellwether for liberal conventional wisdom, asserts<\/a> that \u201cclimate change greatly increases the likelihood of heat waves, as well as their intensity and duration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the page the story links to \u2013 GlobalChange.gov<\/a> \u2013 includes the map below, which breaks down the U.S. into seven regions and compares the number of days where the temperature exceeded 95 degrees from 2002-2021 to 1901-1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take a close look at the map.<\/p>\n\n\n

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If the globe is warming, you\u2019d expect those hot days to go up everywhere. But of the 50 states in the country, only 10 saw an increase in 95-plus degree days over those periods. Most of the U.S. saw decreases<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while the Southwest saw an increase of 5.5 days, the Southeast saw a drop of 9.7 days, and the Midwest a decline of 5.6 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then look at the chart below which tracks the number of heat waves each year going back to 1895.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notice anything? To our eye, there\u2019s no discernible trend at all. Particularly when you consider that the truly terrible heat waves occurred in the 1930s, long before human activity could have had any meaningful effect on global climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then there\u2019s this whopper of a lie in the Axios story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy it matters: Extreme heat is the top weather-related killer in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story links to a Weather.gov page, which says right at the top that \u201cExtreme heat is the number one weather-related killer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the very next sentence takes that back, saying \u201cExtreme heat and humidity is one of <\/em>the leading weather-related killers in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truth is that extreme cold, not heat, is more lethal, as data from the Environmental Protection Agency (the biggest climate crisis propagandist of them all) make clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The same is true for other claims that \u201cclimate change\u201d is causing more extreme and more deadly weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every time a tornado hits, the media say that twisters are getting more frequent and more violent. Except that\u2019s a lie, as the chart below shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here\u2019s what National Geographic said<\/a> about tornadoes: \u201cThere is no real evidence that tornadoes are happening more often. A lot more are being recorded now than in 1950, but a closer look at the data shows the increase is only in the weakest category, EF0. There\u2019s been no increase in stronger twisters, and maybe even a slight decrease in EF4s and EF5s.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every hurricane season, we\u2019re told that they are getting more frequent and stronger. But there\u2019s no discernible trend there, either. See the chart below, also from the EPA<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, surely climate change is causing more forest fires. We hear that every time there is one, so it must be true, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sorry, but it\u2019s another climate lie, as the chart below, from the National Interagency Fire Center, shows. There\u2019s also the fact that many of the worst forest fires are the result of mismanagement of the land by the state and federal government, not climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But since that doesn\u2019t fit the \u201cclimate crisis\u201d narrative, why not lie about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Originally published by <\/em>Issues & Insights<\/a>. Republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There\u2019s a summer heat wave going on, which gives journalists the opportunity to fill up their stories with climate change boilerplate. It no longer matters whether any of it is true. Just the opposite, in fact. 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